Bathymetric Flythrough of Carnarvon Shelf Benthic Habitats

A flythrough movie visualizes the bathymetry of the Carnarvon shelf, highlighting benthic habitats at Point Cloates. The bathymetric image is derived from multibeam sonar collected in 2008 using a 300 kHz Simrad EM3002 system on RV Solander. Survey work was a collaboration between Geoscience Australia and the Australian Institute of Marine Science, funded by the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities programme.

Use Cases

• Visualizing seafloor topography based on the 2008 multibeam sonar survey
• Studying benthic habitat distribution based on the described ridges and mounds
• Analyzing the relationship between geomorphic features and biological communities based on the described coral and sponge habitats

Strengths

• Data derived from a specific 300 kHz Simrad EM3002 multibeam sonar system
• Focuses on a prominent ridge at 60 m water depth and complex inner-shelf features
• Produced through a collaboration between Geoscience Australia and the Australian Institute of Marine Science

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia and the Australian Institute of Marine Science

Collection Method

Multibeam sonar survey conducted from RV Solander

Time Range

2008

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 01:10:29.240329; freshness should be verified

Geography

Carnarvon shelf, Point Cloates, Australia